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parcel

[pahr-suhl] / ˈpɑr səl /
NOUN
container prepared to be sent
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NOUN
piece of land
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"It's not really about raising funds. It's about getting our own Africans generally to be part and parcel of this refinery," Dangote said.

From Barron's Sep. 7, 2026

The parcel will be preserved for recreational use, but specific plans won’t be decided until it’s donated to a public agency, according to Robert Moddelmog, who serves as Enforcement Counsel for the Coastal Commission.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

Located in the exclusive Madison Park community, the expansive abode overlooks Lake Washington and sits on a 1.9-acre parcel.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

“While the project followed standard approval processes for an industrially zoned parcel, we recognize the community wanted more engagement sooner, and we take that seriously,” Wehner said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Then they had all turned up one day at his home address in Canada in one big parcel.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

But parliament is struggling to approve suggested laws, which include unpopular measures such as imposing duties on parcels from abroad, intended to boost revenues.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

Two city-owned parcels amounting to almost a half-acre of land were needed to build the museum.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

Davidson analyst Gil Luria called “one of the most important parcels of real estate in the AI market.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

Care Zone is one of several organisations part of the council's crisis resilience fund, a network helping people with food parcels, advice and other services.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

The Assistant tied up the parcels, while Maia ran round him, pushing at the paper, giving a tug to the string to make sure that it was firmly knotted.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

Down: We’re writing Season 5 right now, and without giving too much away, we’re approaching that season very differently in terms of how information’s parceled out.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

The acres parceled out for Stratos all lie on private, unzoned property, and the landowners there had already granted their blessing.

From Slate Jun. 1, 2026

Certain credits are parceled out quarterly or even monthly, and premium cards can have the feel of a coupon book.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 6, 2025

I scan the little slots until I find mine: a refill of Greek oregano, parceled out in a plastic baggie with a heat-sealed strip.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2025

She kept 48 hives strewn through the woods around the pink house, and another 280 were parceled out on various farms, in river yards and upland swamps.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

People are living longer, spending more on themselves and parceling out their riches in smaller doses to children and grandchildren.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

The insurance department, in turn, has encouraged companies to ask for all the rate increases they need at once, rather than parceling out requests over time.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2023

Front-line nurses, already parceling out a few minutes an hour to each patient under their care, say juggling unfamiliar products or adjusting to workarounds makes their jobs even more fraught.

From Seattle Times Jan. 29, 2022

Narrative agency is what interests the author, her manner of parceling out information evoking at times the fragmentary and diaristic sensibilities of Jenny Offill’s “Dept. of Speculation.”

From New York Times Jan. 7, 2020

Or was it just more of the same parceling out of fortunes that had brought us this far, to this place where our path would finally divide into two?

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Just open up a page and experience the meditative calm of reading alphabetized lists that are parcelled into neat little sections.

From Slate Feb. 14, 2020

Indeed, American cultural history could probably be parcelled out as a sequence of sensational murder cases.

From The New Yorker Apr. 8, 2019

Individual land ownership is often ineffectual for forests and rangelands, which lose their value when parcelled up.

From Economist Jul. 14, 2016

When St Valentine was parcelled up and posted around the world, it was natural a piece of him was sent to St John's.

From BBC Feb. 12, 2016

That first captain walled their promontory, built their homes and shrines, and parcelled out the black land for the plow.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Congo-Brazzaville's government has already begun parcelling out blocks of land and looking for potential investors, although there is some uncertainty about the extent and significance of the oil reserves.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2022

Given all this filtering and parcelling out, it’s not surprising that memory is imperfect.

From The Guardian Oct. 12, 2014

And once you begin parcelling out roles rather than wrapping them together in a single nightmare bundle, it gets rather easier to find George Entwistle's successor.

From The Guardian Nov. 18, 2012

Popular in Czechoslovakia is the Government's policy of seizing the broad acres of great nobles and parcelling them out among the poor.

From Time Magazine Archive

He regretted that he had not doubled the rope, but now nothing could be done beyond putting a temporary "parcelling" round it where it passed through the bow fairlead.

From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman




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